Erection date: 1968
{The plinth of the bust is inscribed:}
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889 - 1964
In April 2009 this statue was beheaded, allegedly by protestors from an unauthorized Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam demonstration.
WC2, India Place, India House
Nearby India House is the High Commission of India.
To the north of the bust two trees have been planted each with a plaque laid into the ground.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nehru bust
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of M...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nehru bust
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Nehru bust
Friendship Tree (Koelreutaria paniculata or Pride of India) planted by Lord M...
All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign, and we don't know where they went.
The building by E. R. Robson was erected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, founded in 1831 (the crest in the centre of...
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
As so often, Ornamental Passions have a good post on this sculpture.
Trinity House, was designed by architect Samuel Wyatt and built in 1796. The following year the Great Tower Hill Act enabled the creatio...
